On the Shore of Nothingness: Space, Rhythm, and Semantic Structure in Religious Poetry and Its Mystic-Secular CounterpartThis book studies how poetic structure transforms verbal imitations of religious experience into concepts. The book investigates how such a conceptual language can convey such non-conceptual experiences as meditation, ecstasy or mystic insights. Briefly, it explores how the poet, by using words, can express the 'ineffable'. It submits to close reading English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Armenian and Hebrew texts, from the Bible, through medieval, renaissance, metaphysical, and baroque poetry, to romantic and symbolistic poetry. |
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... Imagery in Poetry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 13. The Asymmetry of Sacred, Sexual, and Filial Love in Figurative Language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 References ...
... Imagery in Poetry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 13. The Asymmetry of Sacred, Sexual, and Filial Love in Figurative Language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 References ...
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... Imagery in Poetry”. This chapter explores the cognitive foundations and the literary applications of spatial imagery. There seem to be several good reasons to have recourse.
... Imagery in Poetry”. This chapter explores the cognitive foundations and the literary applications of spatial imagery. There seem to be several good reasons to have recourse.
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... imagery; this chapter explores two of them. On the one hand, concrete visual images constitute a bundle of features and, as such, allow for the efficient coding of information. This, in turn, grants the cognitive system great ...
... imagery; this chapter explores two of them. On the one hand, concrete visual images constitute a bundle of features and, as such, allow for the efficient coding of information. This, in turn, grants the cognitive system great ...
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... imagery it is likely to mean rape here. But remembering that the poem is about some overwhelming spiritual experience, the other meaning of ravish becomes conspicuous: “to fill with intense emotion”. The violent connotations of some of ...
... imagery it is likely to mean rape here. But remembering that the poem is about some overwhelming spiritual experience, the other meaning of ravish becomes conspicuous: “to fill with intense emotion”. The violent connotations of some of ...
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... imagery, the oxymora and the imperatives at the fortissimo of an “emotive crescendo” seem to be the perceptual conditions for a peculiar “tiptoe effect”. The imagery of rape and thrall, as the summit of a verb-series of mounting ...
... imagery, the oxymora and the imperatives at the fortissimo of an “emotive crescendo” seem to be the perceptual conditions for a peculiar “tiptoe effect”. The imagery of rape and thrall, as the summit of a verb-series of mounting ...
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abstract Andreas Gryphius aspects Auschwitz Baroque boundaries chapter characteristic cognitive Cognitive Poetics composition of place conception conceptual metaphor consciousness context contrast convergent device diffuse discussed Donne Donne’s ecstatic effect Ehrenzweig elements emotional evoke excerpt fire focus function gestalt-free Hebrew Herbert’s human Ibn Gabirol imagery instance intense kind language light man’s Martz meaning meditation mental metaphor metaphysical poetry metonymy Milton mystic experience mystic poetry nature Neo-Platonic nothingness noun numinous objects one’s orientation Paradise Lost paradox passage pattern perceived perception periphrasis phrase physical Platonic poem poet poetic position potentials predicate present prosodic quatrain quoted reader reality reference reinforced religious poetry rhyme rhythm romantic romantic poetry Rudolf Otto semantic sense sestet sonnet soul spatial speech sounds stanza structure sublime suggests syllables syntactic thing-free tion transcendence trochaic Tsur Tyger typically undifferentiated verb verbal verse visual shapes witty words Wordsworth’s world picture